Couper
Couper was last recorded in 2020, when 11 babies were given it; 170 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Couper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Couper?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,120, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2010, the peak
Couper peaked in 2010, when 17 boys were given it, #5,289 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | #7,120 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,576 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,746 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,262 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,853 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,284 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,996 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,289 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,801 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,325 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 14 | #5,965 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,994 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,211 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,125 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,932 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,774 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,564 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Couper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Couper has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Couper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Couper, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Couper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 202 people named Couper (13 women and girls, 189 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 131,725 babies since 1880, Couper is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 7,953 babies recorded by SSA was a Couper (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Couper
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Couper and names like it
- Compare Couper and CooperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCouper peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Couper.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Couper alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.